The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Constitution) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Statutory Instruments

2003 No. 2252

MAGISTRATES' COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Magistrates' Courts Committees (Constitution) (Amendment) Regulations 2003

Made

28th August 2003

Laid before Parliament

2nd September 2003

Coming into force

1st October 2003

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 29 of the Justices of the Peace Act 1997(1), makes the following Regulations:

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Magistrates' Courts Committees (Constitution) (Amendment) Regulations 2003 and shall come into force on 1st October 2003.

2.  In regulation 8 of the Magistrates' Courts Committees (Constitution) Regulations 1999(2)—

(a) in paragraph (1) omit “, subject to paragraph (2),”; and

(b) omit paragraphs (2) to (4).

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Christopher Leslie

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Constitutional Affairs

28th August 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Magistrates' Courts Committees (Constitution) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/2395) by omitting regulations 8(2) to (4). By regulation 8(1), as amended, a member of a magistrates' courts committee is appointed to serve for 3 years and shall be eligible for reappointment for similar terms indefinitely. The omission of regulation 8(3) means that a justice is no longer prevented from being appointed to the committee if his name is due to be entered on the supplemental list before the expiry of the 3 year term, and he may be appointed and continue to be a member of the committee until the end of his term.

(1)

1997 c. 25. Section 29 was substituted by section 82 of the Access to Justice Act 1999 (c. 22).

(2)

S.I. 1999/2395, amended by S.I. 2001/2711.